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Cozy Mystery Book Recommendations – September 2018

September is coming to an end, so it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozy Mysteries that we’ve read over the course of the month!

If you read a Cozy mystery this month and want to recommend it to the rest of us, be sure to post it here! This month, I read Dorothy L. Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Series. If you want to know why I recommend that series, be sure to check out the blog entry I wrote on it!

So, what have you been reading that you can recommend in September? Please be sure to tell us why you liked these Cozies so much. I know we’re all always on the lookout for more particularly good Cozy Mystery authors! (If you have a lot of Cozies you think are great, please post the ones you like the most at the top of the list.)

As always, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like.

What really good Cozy Mystery did you read during September 2018 that you want the rest of us to know about, and why did you enjoy it?

Here are the current recommended authors who some of you have read and recommended this past month:

Susan Wittig Albert: China Bayles Herbal Mystery Series

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow Mystery Series

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series

Bree Baker: Seaside Cafe Mystery Series (first entry Live and Let Chai)

Lorna Barrett (aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorraine Bartlett): Booktown Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton: Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series

Ginger Bolton (aka Janet Bolin): Deputy Donut Mystery Series

Susan M. Boyer: Liz Talbot Mystery Series

Simon Brett: Mrs. Pargeter Mystery Series

Allison Brook (aka Marilyn Levinson): Haunted Library Mystery Series

Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile Mystery Series

Vivien Chien: Noodle Shop Mystery Series

Sheila Connolly  (aka Sarah Atwell): Ocrchard Mystery Series AND County Cork Mystery Series

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly)

Mary Daheim: Emma Lord Mystery Series AND Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series

Carolyn F. Dean: Ravenwood Cove Mystery Series (first entry Bed, Breakfast, and Bones)

Charles Finch: Charles Lenox Mystery Series

Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen Mystery Series

Darci Hannah: Very Cherry Mystery Series (first entry Cherry Pies and Deadly Lies)

Sofie Kelly  (aka Sofie Ryan & Darlene Ryan for Young Adult): Magical Cats Mystery Series

Cornelia Kidd (aka Lea Wait): Maine Murder Mystery Series

Libby Klein: Poppy McAllister Mystery Series (first entry Class Reunions are Murder)

M L Hamilton: Zion Sawyer Mystery Series (first entry Cappuchino)

Charlotte MacLeod (aka Alisa Craig): Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mystery Series

Faith Martin: Hillary Greene Mystery Series (first entry Murder on the Oxford Canal)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Library Lover’s Mystery Series

Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series

Rebecca Raisin: Little Paris Mystery Series (first entry The Little Bookshop on the Seine)

Dorothy L. Sayers: Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Series

Denise Swanson

Ashley Weaver: Amory Ames Mystery Series

[If you click on the author’s name (blue) link, it will take you to his/her page on the Cozy Mystery site. The pages have all of the authors’ books listed chronologically.]

I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month.

♦To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link♦

P.S. I usually don’t comment on your recommendations since they speak for themselves.

Favorite Established (5+ books) Cozy Mystery Series?

This is something of a follow-up for last month’s question, which was whether viewers preferred long series or short…

Brooke asks:

What are your favorite established (at least 5 books) cozy mystery series?

That’s a surprisingly hard question! Well, I suppose the first answer springs to mind is that I have a real weakness for the “classics”. I can’t turn down anything by Agatha Christie, or many of the other authors of her generation. Beyond that, I have written about many, many series, all of which have their own charm, and most of which have at least five entries, most linked in the Cozy Mystery Recommendations page.

Recommended Cozy Mystery Series of at least 5 books:

Victoria Abbott (Mary Jane Maffini & Victoria Maffini): Book Collectors 

Ellery Adams (aka Jennifer Stanley, J. B. Stanley, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington): Books by the Bay

Susan Wittig Albert: China Bayles

Susan Wittig Albert: the Darling Dahlias

Ellie Alexander (aka Kate Dyer-Seeley): Bakeshop

Madelyn Alt: Bewitching

Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow 

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity

Lorna Barrett (aka L. L. Bartlett & Lorraine Bartlett): Booktown 

M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Hamish Macbeth

M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Agatha Raisin

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Witchcraft

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber): Wishcraft

Rhys Bowen: Royal Spyness

Rhys Bowen: Molly Murphy

Susan M. Boyer: Liz Talbot (Lowcountry)

Lilian Jackson Braun: The Cat Who…

Simon Brett: Mrs. Pargeter

Emily Brightwell: Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries (Victorian)

Duffy Brown: Consignment Shop

Rita Mae Brown: Mrs. Murphy

Kate Carlisle: Bibliophile

Kate Carlisle: Fixer-Upper

Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Southern Sewing Circle

Bailey Cates (aka Cricket McRae & Bailey Cattrell): Magical Bakery

Bailey Cates (aka Cricket McRae & Bailey Cattrell): Enchanted Garden

Laura Childs: Tea Shop

Laura Childs: Scrapbooking

Agatha Christie: Miss Marple

Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot

Edie Claire: Leigh Koslow

Jane K. Cleland: Josie Prescott Antiques

Blaize Clement/David Clement: Dixie Hemingway

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra and Nell Hampton): Candy-Coated

Kate Collins: Flower Shop Mystery Series

E.J. Copperman (aka Jeffrey Cohen): Haunted Guesthouse

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Coffeehouse

Ellen Crosby: Wine Country

Mary Daheim: Emma Lord

Mary Daheim: Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast

Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin

Shirley Damsgaard: Ophelia & Abby

Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy Bear

Krista Davis: Paws & Claws

Krista Davis: Domestic Diva

Jo Dereske: Miss Zukas

R.B. Dominic (Emma Lathen): Ben Safford

Selma Eichler: Desiree Shapiro

Lynn Florkiewicz: Sir James Harrington

Joanna Fluke: Hannah Swensen

Earlene Fowler: Benni Harper (Quilting)

Dick/Felix Francis: horseracing

Margaret Frazer (aka Gail Frazer, Monica Ferris): Sister Frevisse Medieval

Margaret Frazer (aka Gail Frazer, Monica Ferris): Joliffe the Player

Paul Gallico: Mrs. ‘Enry

Eva Gates (aka Vicki Delany): Lighthouse Library

Anne George: Southern Sisters

Dorothy Gilman: Mrs. Pollifax

Sally Goldenbaum: Seaside Knitters

Sue Grafton: Kinsey Millhone

Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher

Kerry Greenwood: Corinna Chapman

Elly Griffiths: Ruth Galloway

Jane Haddam (aka Orania Papazoglou): Gregor Demarkian

Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney

Victoria Hamilton (aka Amanda Cooper & Donna Lea Simpson): Vintage Kitchen

Lee Harris: Christine Bennett Holiday

Sherry Harris: Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery Series

Carolyn Hart (aka Carolyn G. Hart): Death on Demand

Betty Hechtman

Veronica Heley: Ellie Quicke

Joan Hess (aka Joan Hadley): Maggody 

Joan Hess (aka Joan Hadley): Claire Malloy

Tony/Anne Hillerman: Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito (Navajo)

Julie Hyzy: Manor of Murder

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Odelia Grey

Miranda James (aka Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans, & Dean James): Cat in the Stacks

Dianne Kelly: Paw Enforcement series

Sofie Kelly: Magical Cats

Emma Lathen (aka R. B. Dominic): John Thatcher (Wallstreet)

Jim and Joyce Lavene (aka J. J. Cook & Ellie Grant): All series

Laura Levine: Jaine Austen

Kylie Logan  (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels):  League of Literary Ladies

Jess Lourey: Murder by Month

Karen MacInerney: Gray Whale Inn

Charlotte MacLeod: Peter Shandy & Helen Shandy 

G. M. Malliet: Max Tudor

Margaret Maron: Judge Deborah Knott

Alyssa Maxwell: Gilded Newport

Judi McCoy: Dog Walker

G.A. McKevett: Savannah Reid

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Cupcake Bakery

Jenn McKinlay (aka Josie Belle & Lucy Lawrence): Hat Shop

Leslie Meier: Lucy Stone

Barbara Michaels (aka Elizabeth Peters & Barbara Mertz)

Emma Miller: Amish

Patricia Moyes: Henry and Emily Tibbett

Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Joe Grey Cat

Tamar Myers: Pennsylvania Dutch Inn

Gail Oust: Spice Shop

Katherine Hall Page: Faith Fairchild

Sara Paretsky: V.I. Warshawski

Louise Penny: Chief Inspector Gamache

Leigh Perry (aka Toni L.P. Kelner): Family Skeleton

Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Michaels & Barbara Mertz): Amelia Peabody

Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael

Maggie Pill: The Sleuth Sisters

Rhonda Pollero: F. A. T.

Ellery Queen: Ellery Queen

Ann B. Ross: Miss Julia 

Hank Phillippi Ryan: Jane Ryland

Sophie Ryan (aka Sofie Kelly): Second Chance Cat

Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

Elizabeth Daniels Squire: Peaches Dann

Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe

Denise Swanson: Scumble River

Leann Sweeney: Cats in Trouble

Ann Swinfen: Oxford Medieval

Marcia Talley: Hannah Ives

Victoria Thompson: Gaslight

Rebecca Tope: Cotswold

Various Authors: Miss Seeton

Robert Van Gulik: Judge Dee

Elaine Viets: Dead-End Job

Lea Wait: Mainely Needlepoint

Lea Wait (aka Cornelia Kidd): Shadows Antique Print

Livia J. Washburn: Fresh-Baked Mysteries

Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs

P.S. Brooke, I sure hope this list of recommended Cozy Mystery authors and at least 5-book series gives you a starting point!

New Releases – September 24 to September 30, 2018

Here is the list of new releases for September 24 to September 30!

Winnie Archer (aka Melissa Bourbon & Misa Ramirez): The Walking Bread (This will be the 3rd in the Bread Shop Mystery Series.)

Kathleen Bridge: A Killing by the Sea (This will be the 2nd in the By the Sea Mystery Series.)

Catherine Bruns: Crumbled to Pieces (This will be the 6th in the Cookies & Chance Mystery Series.)

Mollie Cox Bryan: Assault and Beadery (This will be the 4th in the Cora Crafts Mystery Series.)

Nancy Coco (aka Nancy J. Parra & Nell Hampton): Forever Fudge (This will be the 7th in the Candy-coated Mystery Series.) (This is a Labor Day themed mystery.)

Nancy J. Cohen: Trimmed to Death (This will be the 15th in the Bad Hair Day Mystery Series.)

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly: The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller (This will be the 6th in the Haunted Bookshop Mystery Series.)

Isis Crawford (aka Barbara Block): A Catered Cat Wedding (This will be the 14th in the Mystery with Recipes Mystery Series.)

Devon Delaney: Final Roasting Place (This will be the 2nd in the Cook-Off Mystery Series.)

J.C. Eaton: Chardonnayed to Rest (This will be the 2nd in the Wine Trail Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Premeditated Peppermint (This will be the 3rd in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series. This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Joanne Fluke: Christmas Cake Murder (This will be the in the Hannah Swensen Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Anna Lee Huber: Treacherous Is the Night (This will be the 2nd in the Verity Kent Mystery Series.)

Tonya Kappes (aka Maymee Bell): Tangled Up in Tinsel (This will be the 6th in the Kenni Lowry Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Laura Levine: Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge (This will be the 16th in the Jaine Austen Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Colette London: The Peppermint Mocha Murder (This will be the 5th in the Chocolate Whisperer Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Archer Mayor: Bury the Lead (This will be the 29th in the Joe Gunther Mystery Series.)

Leslie Meier: Silver Anniversary Murder (This will be the 25th in the Lucy Stone Mystery Series.)

Carol J. Perry: Bells, Spells, and Murders (This will be the 7th in the Witch City Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas themed mystery.)

Suzanne Trauth: Just in Time (This will be the 4th in the Dodie O’Dell Mystery Series.)

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for October 2018

OK, let’s see… while searching through for this month’s mystery movies, I found several movies starring Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, and Peter Lorre. The movies featured mad scientists, vampires, monsters, and the living dead. This could only mean that I was searching through the Turner Classic Movies channel’s October schedule. Bring on the fall, and I can’t wait!

I’m going to leave it up to you all to pick and choose your own Halloween movies, but as usual, I will post the mystery movies I found on TCM that will be playing during October 2018:

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – October 1, 2018

10:00 AM
THE OUTRAGE (1964)
A Mexican bandit’s crimes receive wildly different interpretations from four witnesses.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom.
BW- 96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:45 AM
NIGHT WATCH (1973)
A woman recovering from mental problems witnesses a murder, but nobody believes her.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw.
C- 99 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – October 2, 2018

12:00 AM
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974)
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a mysterious businessman during a luxurious train ride.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman.
C- 128 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 AM
PENTHOUSE (1933)
The mob frames a lawyer for murder, so he enlists a call girl’s help in finding the real killer.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth.
BW- 89 mins, CC

1:00 PM
THE THIN MAN (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW- 91 mins, CC

2:45 PM
THE MAD MISS MANTON (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
BW- 80 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – October 3, 2018

8:00 PM
THE UNKNOWN (1927)
In this silent film, an escaped killer pretends to be a sideshow’s armless wonder.
Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford.
BW- 50 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – October 5, 2018

8:00 PM
NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH (1940)
A British agent masquerades as a Nazi officer to protect an inventor and his daughter.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul von Henreid.
BW- 95 mins, CC

10:00 PM
THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.
BW- 96 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – October 6, 2018

12:00 AM
THE WICKED LADY, THE (1945)
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
Dir: Leslie Arliss Cast: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc.
BW- 104 mins

10:10 AM
THE SAINT STRIKES BACK (1939)
The Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jerome Cowan.
BW- 64 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – October 7, 2018

12:00 AM
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
BW- 96 mins, CC

10:00 AM
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.
BW- 96 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – October 9, 2018

12:00 AM
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)

A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker.
BW- 101 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – October 11, 2018

6:45 AM
A CRY IN THE NIGHT (1956)
A police captain’s emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Dir: Frank Tuttle Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood.
BW- 75 mins

8:15 AM
BEHAVE YOURSELF! (1951)
A young couple’s dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders.
Dir: George Beck Cast: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest.
BW- 81 mins, CC

9:45 AM
NOWHERE TO GO (1958)
A burglar on the run holes up with an innocent English girl.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee.
BW- 87 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – October 12, 2018

4:00 AM
I LOVE YOU AGAIN (1940)
A solid married man discovers he’s forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh.
BW- 99 mins, CC

6:00 AM
FAST LIFE (1932)
An innocent man stands trial for killing the man who tried to steal his wife.
Dir: Harry Pollard Cast: William Haines, Madge Evans, Conrad Nagel.
BW- 82 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – October 13, 2018

10:09 AM
THE SAINT IN LONDON (1939)
The Saint’s investigation of a counterfeiting ring uncovers a nest of spies.
Dir: John Paddy Carstairs Cast: George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns.
BW- 72 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – October 14, 2018

6:30 PM
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
C- 81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – October 16, 2018

9:45 AM
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed.
BW- 110 mins, CC

10:00 PM
AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD (1952)
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband’s killer.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby.
BW- 98 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – October 17, 2018

12:15 PM
THE EX-MRS. BRADFORD (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason.
BW- 81 mins, CC

8:00 PM
THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932)
A storm strands travelers in a house full of dangerous eccentrics.
Dir: James Whale Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton.
BW- 72 mins

9:30 PM
THE WALKING DEAD (1936)
A framed man comes back from the dead to seek revenge.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn.
BW- 65 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – October 18, 2018

6:30 AM
YELLOW DUST (1936)
After he’s accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
Dir: Wallace Fox Cast: Richard Dix, Leila Hyams, Moroni Olson.
BW- 69 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – October 19, 2018

6:00 AM
YOU CAN’T GET AWAY WITH MURDER (1939)
A young tough takes the rap for a hardened gangster.
Dir: Lewis Seiler Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop.
BW- 79 mins, CC

7:30 AM
THE MAN WHO TALKED TOO MUCH (1940)
A defense lawyer sets out to topple a powerful gangster.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall.
BW- 76 mins

9:00 AM
THE MURDER MAN (1935)
A hard-drinking reporter specializes in murder cases, until he becomes a suspect in one himself.
Dir: Tim Whelan Cast: Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill.
BW- 69 mins, CC

10:15 AM
STRANGE JUSTICE (1932)
A crooked banker and his assistant devise a scheme to frame an ex-con for their crime.
Dir: Victor Schertzinger Cast: Marian Marsh, Reginald Denny, Richard Bennett.
BW- 64 mins

12:45 PM
TWO SECONDS (1932)
In the last moments of his life, a criminal reviews the circumstances that led him to death row.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee.
BW- 67 mins, CC

5:00 PM
BACK IN CIRCULATION (1937)
A reporter tries to win her editor’s heart by solving a murder case.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay.
BW- 81 mins, CC

6:30 PM
YOU CAN’T ESCAPE FOREVER (1942)
Although she’s been demoted to writing the advice column, a newspaper woman still tries to expose a racketeer.
Dir: Jo Graham Cast: George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Gene Lockhart.
BW- 78 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – October 20, 2018

10:09 AM
THE SAINT’S DOUBLE TROUBLE (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: George Sanders, Helene Whitney, Jonathan Hale.
BW- 67 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – October 22, 2018

12:45 PM
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
BW- 80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

6:15 PM
SUSPICION (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
BW- 99 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – October 23, 2018

10:00 PM
THE STORY ON PAGE ONE (1960)
Dir: Clifford Odets Cast: Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young.
BW- 123 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – October 25, 2018

12:15 AM
THE HAPPY THIEVES (1962)
A worldly art thief gets mixed up with murder.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Rex Harrison, Rita Hayworth, Joseph Wiseman.
C- 89 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM
THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW- 109 mins, CC

10:00 PM
THE LATE SHOW (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir: Robert Benton Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy.
C- 93 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – October 26, 2018

8:00 PM
WHITE LIGHTNING (1973)
A convicted moonshiner helps police track down the bayou bad guys who killed his brother.
Dir: Joseph Sargent Cast: Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jennifer Billingsley.
C- 101 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – October 27, 2018

10:08 AM
THE SAINT TAKES OVER (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar tries to help a police inspector who’s been framed on bribery charges.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale.
BW- 70 mins, CC

11:30 AM
THE TELL-TALE HEART (1941)
In this short film, a man commits a murder and is tormented by the victim’s beating heart.
BW- 20 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – October 28, 2018

12:00 AM
FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey.
BW- 60 mins, CC

10:00 AM
FOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949)
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
Dir: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey.
BW- 60 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – October 29, 2018

4:00 AM
DIABOLIQUE (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret.
BW- 117 mins

7:45 AM
THE BAD SEED (1956)
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden.
C- 129 mins, CC

1:15 PM
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono.
BW- 134 mins, CC

3:45 PM
HUSH… HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964)
A wealthy southern spinster fights to keep her family’s secrets hidden.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Joseph Cotten.
BW- 133 mins, CC

6:15 PM
THE NANNY (1965)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett.
BW- 93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – October 31, 2018

7:30 AM
DEMENTIA 13 (1963)
Members of an Irish family are being killed off by one of their own who wishes to inherit the family fortune.
Dir: Francis Coppola Cast: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton.
BW- 75 mins, CC

***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in October, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the September 2018 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for September 2018 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and  Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

(All of the movie descriptions were taken off their respective websites.)

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